"My mother didn't love me. So what. My husband won't ball me. So what. I'm a success but I'm still alone. So what. I don't know how I made it through all the years before I learned how to do that trick…"

"I never understood why when you died, you didn't just vanish, everything should just keep going on the way it was only you just wouldn't be there."

"I like to be the right thing at the wrong time. Being the right thing at the right time is too easy."

"I really believe in empty spaces, although, as an artist, I make a lot of junk. Empty space is never-wasted space. Wasted space is any space that has art in it."

"What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest. You can be watching TV and see Coca-Cola, and you know…"